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Title:

Cities and nature in the American West / edited by Char Miller.

Publisher:

University of Nevada Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

vii, 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Urbanization--History--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
City planning--History--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Nature--History--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Environmentalism--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Social change--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
West (U.S.)--Environmental conditions.
West (U.S.)--Social conditions--20th century.
West (U.S.)--History, Local.

Other Authors:

Miller, Char, 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Into the West / Char Miller -- Land -- Sweetening the urban marketplace : California's Hawaiian outpost / Jessica Teisch -- Crabgrass or grapes : urban sprawl, agricultural persistence, and the fight for the Napa Valley / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Natives' return : LBJ'S Texas White House and Lady Bird's wildflowers / Vera Norwood -- Water -- Fishy thinking : salmon and the persistence of history in urban environmental politics / Matthew Klingle -- One city, two rivers : Columbia and Willamette rivers in the environmental history of twentieth-century Portland, Oregon / William Lang -- Private water : the curious case of San Jose's water supply / Martin V. Melosi -- Campground -- Performing bears and packaged wilderness : reframing the history of national parks / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- The devil in the cathedral : sewage and garbage in Yosemite National Park / Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver -- Sleeping outside : the political natures of urban camping / Phoebe S. Kropp Young -- City -- Boundary issues : clarifying New Orleans's murky edges / Ari Kelman -- The nature and business of war : drilling for oil in wartime Los Angeles / Sarah S. Elkind -- Stand by your brand : Vail, Colorado, and the consumer roots of popular environmentalism / William Philpott -- The whole Earth catalog, new games, and urban environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk -- Escape to the West/return to the East : the lure of the city familiar / Joel A. Tarr.

Series:

The urban West series

ISBN:

087417824X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780874178241 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)608034007

LCCN:

2010014696

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)